ERIE, Pa. -- The No. 1 Mercyhurst baseball team split a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference West Division doubleheader with Gannon, winning 10-4 and then losing 4-0, across town on the Gannon campus on Saturday.

Individual game recaps are below.

Game One: Mercyhurst 10, Gannon 4
Chris Gonzalez batted 3-for-5 with a double, one RBI and two runs to lead the Lakers' 14-hit attack. Mercyhurst scored in 6 of 7 innings while claiming its 18th consecutive win.

Cameron Balego, Drew Delsignore, Jared Kapturasky and Matthew Schneider added two-hit games for the Lakers. Balego, Delsignore and Schneider had doubles while Kapturasky contributed a home run.

Delsignore and Daniel Elliott had two RBI apiece. Dan Popio scored twice.

Vincenzo Lucente was the winning pitcher. He went the distance and was charged with only one earned run. While allowing five hits, hit compiled five strikeouts, zero walks and three hit batsmen.

The Lakers jumped ahead with two runs in the first inning and eventually built its lead to 4-0 in the third. They led the entire way.

Elliott and Sabatino DiNardo III helped stake the Lakers that two-run lead in the first as Elliott had an RBI single and DiNardo drew a bases-loaded walk.

Kapturasky led off the Laker second inning with a home run and Popio followed with an RBI single in the third.

After Gannon scratched its first run across in the third, the Lakers answered with five straight runs -- three in the fourth and two in the fifth.

In the fourth, Delsignore hammered a two-run double and Schneider added an RBI double later in the inning. During the fifth, Balego hit a sacrifice fly and Elliott worked a bases-loaded walk.

Gregory Nicolia, who went 2-for-4 for Gannon, had an RBI triple in the Knight fifth inning as the hosts trimmed their deficit to 9-3, but that was as close as GU would get.

Gonzalez had an RBI double for Mercyhurst's final run in the sixth. Gannon scored its final run on an MU error in the seventh.

David Cricks was the losing pitcher for Gannon. In 3 2/3 innings, he gave up seven runs on 10 hits while recording five strikeouts, two walks and one hit batsman.

With the win, Mercyhurst matched 18-game winning streaks by the 1997 Lakers and 2016 Lakers for the second-highest winning streak in program history. The record -- set in 1994 -- is 24 games.


Game Two: Gannon 4, Mercyhurst 0
Kapturasky and Popio had the Lakers' only hits -- both of which were doubles -- as Mercyhurst struggled against Gannon pitcher Jarod Morrison.

Gannon took a 2-0 lead in the first inning -- one run came in on an error and the next on sac fly.

Mike Colosi added an RBI double for the Knights in the second and Kyle Cox had an RBI double in the fifth.

Morrison gave up only two hits while finishing with eight strikeouts, four walks and two hit batters.

Matthew Keating was the losing pitcher. He worked 5 1/3 innings and was charged with three earned runs. He allowed seven hits while recording seven strikeouts and one walk.

The Lakers (31-3, 18-2) will play their next game on Tuesday when they visit Lake Erie for a 2 p.m. non-conference game.